People with chronic fatigue syndrome but have not been diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance still have reduced blood flows to the brain during a tilt table test and suffer cognitively afterwards. People with severe ME/CFS only need to be tilted up a bit to suffer severe declines in blood flows to the brain.
Low brain blood flows and orthostatic intolerance; e.g. increased symptoms when standing or standing were found in virtually all chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients in this large study.
Despite the current lack of consensus as to the underlying biological basis of CFS, there is considerable evidence … to highlight an abnormality of the autonomic nervous system as a unifying pathological factor. Newton et. al. 2013 A fascinating case of research...
Italo Biaggioni, a respected Vanderbilt researcher in the field, has co-authored 100’s of studies on dysautonomia. He was an impressive speaker, at ease and relaxed in front of the room. I felt like I was sitting in his living room. He noted that the...
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